The People's Commonwealth of Ankuran is a gargantuan, efficient nation, ruled by Prime Minister Maxime Poirot with a fair hand, and remarkable for its museums and concert halls, soft-spoken computers, and frequent executions. The compassionate, democratic, cheerful population of 16.993 billion Ankurani love a good election, and the government gives them plenty of them. Universities tend to be full of students debating the merits of various civil and political rights, while businesses are tightly regulated and the wealthy viewed with suspicion.

The enormous government juggles the competing demands of Education, Administration, and Healthcare. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Angora. The income tax rate is 100%.

The frighteningly efficient Ankuran economy, worth a remarkable 4,643 trillion buillons a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector, which is quite specialized, is mostly made up of the Information Technology industry, with significant contributions from Tourism and Book Publishing. Average income is an amazing 273,238 buillons, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Time flies when you're not having fun, you need two tenors and a coloratura contralto to sing the national anthem properly, charged suspects often have to wait years before the courts have room to judge their trial, and a passport is literally priceless. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Ankuran's national animal is the jackbooted cottontail, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Ankuran is ranked 287,637^th in the world and 167^th in The Glorious Nations of Iwaku for Most Corrupt Governments, with 0.47 kickbacks per hour.